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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Did you have one at school?

What tuck did it stock?

Who ran it?

What did you buy?

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

No and we didn't have any of those sweet machines either, are they banned now?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"No and we didn't have any of those sweet machines either, are they banned now?

No tuck shops that I know of in any schools.

We didn't have a sweet machine, that's way modern for the 70s.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had a tuck shop for each house room run by the students. I preferred the local icecream van for a sundea and a cigarette. Cant imagine smoking now but still eat ice cream

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over a year ago

We did have a tuck shop but only for the last couple of years of secondary school

It was run by volunteers and if I bought anything it was usually a mars bar

I rarely had money to go to school with so it wasn't often

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Did you have one at school?

What tuck did it stock?

Who ran it?

What did you buy?

Yes I had a tick shop at school.

Some kids from the higher classes ran it.

It had.. Crisps space raiders, highland toffee, pennie sweets etc and bought that

Arrr loved the tuck shop

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Did you have one at school?

What tuck did it stock?

Who ran it?

What did you buy?

Yes I had a tick shop at school.

Some kids from the higher classes ran it.

It had.. Crisps space raiders, highland toffee, pennie sweets etc and bought that

Arrr loved the tuck shop

Highland toffee? Never heard of that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Did you have one at school?

What tuck did it stock?

Who ran it?

What did you buy?

Yes I had a tick shop at school.

Some kids from the higher classes ran it.

It had.. Crisps space raiders, highland toffee, pennie sweets etc and bought that

Arrr loved the tuck shop

Highland toffee? Never heard of that.

You've never lived baby!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Did you have one at school?

What tuck did it stock?

Who ran it?

What did you buy?

Yes I had a tick shop at school.

Some kids from the higher classes ran it.

It had.. Crisps space raiders, highland toffee, pennie sweets etc and bought that

Arrr loved the tuck shop

Highland toffee? Never heard of that.

Really!? It's was lovely.. Like a toffee thin bar

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Did you have one at school?

What tuck did it stock?

Who ran it?

What did you buy?

Yes I had a tick shop at school.

Some kids from the higher classes ran it.

It had.. Crisps space raiders, highland toffee, pennie sweets etc and bought that

Arrr loved the tuck shop

Highland toffee? Never heard of that.

You've never lived baby!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had a tuck shop run by the dinner lady which some p7 pupils helped out on, they sold Highland toffees, penny chews, crisps and juices

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blimey can't remember that far back that was in the 70's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes we did and it was ran by the older pupils.

They sold crisps and chocolate. I can remember the salt and shake crisps from school

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

We didn't have one. The one at Greyfriars sounded ace from the description, though.

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By *ickawitchCouple
over a year ago

Away with the fairies (Liverpool to you)

Ours used to have tiny little pots of Nutella with a tiny little spatula to eat it with - it was yummy

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Blimey can't remember that far back that was in the 70's

Oi, I'm from that far back and I remember buying my single Viscount biscuit. I ran it for one half term with a boy. They made us sort out the stock cupboard too. You were only ever allowed to buy one item, even if you were rich and had money for two or three things.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Ours used to have tiny little pots of Nutella with a tiny little spatula to eat it with - it was yummy

That sounds posh to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Did you have one at school?

What tuck did it stock?

Who ran it?

What did you buy?

Yes I had a tick shop at school.

Some kids from the higher classes ran it.

It had.. Crisps space raiders, highland toffee, pennie sweets etc and bought that

Arrr loved the tuck shop

Highland toffee? Never heard of that.

Sometimes there would be a a free Highland Toffee with The Beano.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We used to sneak across the road to the local sweet shop!

Sweet of choice was 'strawberry millions'

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

The primary school my niece goes to has a little snack bar that they can get stuff from at playtime, fruit, raisins, little cartons of milk or squash. No crisps or chocolate x

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The primary school my niece goes to has a little snack bar that they can get stuff from at playtime, fruit, raisins, little cartons of milk or squash. No crisps or chocolate x"

Have we lost the word tuck?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

we had one...i think 6th formers ran it...had fruit salads, blackjacks,flying saucers..and yes,highland toffee

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Blimey can't remember that far back that was in the 70's

So you must of been rich and your school posh to have a tuck shop

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"We used to sneak across the road to the local sweet shop!

Sweet of choice was 'strawberry millions'

We couldn't get out at primary and the shop was too far for sneaking. We had to get our fags in the morning, on a sort of rota basis.

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

"The primary school my niece goes to has a little snack bar that they can get stuff from at playtime, fruit, raisins, little cartons of milk or squash. No crisps or chocolate x

Have we lost the word tuck?

Not sure. I think a lot of kids have snack time at preschool or nursery so maybe they've just carried it on.

My boy knows the word tuck as in friar tuck. Lol x

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

"We used to sneak across the road to the local sweet shop!

Sweet of choice was 'strawberry millions'

We couldn't get out at primary and the shop was too far for sneaking. We had to get our fags in the morning, on a sort of rota basis.

We used to run to the garage on the corner and have a sneaky fag in the alleyway en route.. Ah good times

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Blimey can't remember that far back that was in the 70's

So you must of been rich and your school posh to have a tuck shop

A very poor area of Hackney but we had a tuck shop. Our mother allowed us to spend the change from the bus fare. The day the fare went up by a ha'penny was the day we had to forego sweets.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"We used to sneak across the road to the local sweet shop!

Sweet of choice was 'strawberry millions'

We couldn't get out at primary and the shop was too far for sneaking. We had to get our fags in the morning, on a sort of rota basis.

We used to run to the garage on the corner and have a sneaky fag in the alleyway en route.. Ah good times

We smoked in the boys' toilets.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Playground assistant ran ours. We had penny wafers,marshmallows,puffs,smiths crisps and some kind of juice in a plastic carton.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

I can't remember if my school did (although I have a feeling at least one of them did) but I definitely remember a tuck shop at Brownie camp.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

Wham bar, Highland Toffee, Chomp, Curly World and those chocolate button type efforts with the hundreds and thousands on them in primary. Some of the older kids bought them round just before breaktime once a week on a trolley. Secondary was all about the iced buns and those still cola style drinks in the plastic cups you had to stick with a straw run by the dinner ladies. I took a packed lunch though so rarely indulged.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Blimey can't remember that far back that was in the 70's

So you must of been rich and your school posh to have a tuck shop

A very poor area of Hackney but we had a tuck shop. Our mother allowed us to spend the change from the bus fare. The day the fare went up by a ha'penny was the day we had to forego sweets.

Pmsl these young ones won't know what your on about half penny lol I remember you could travel so so far on just 2p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Salt'n'shake crisps and Viscount biscuits too,this was in the infant school. In secondary we could only get hot drinks in winter

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Blimey can't remember that far back that was in the 70's

So you must of been rich and your school posh to have a tuck shop

A very poor area of Hackney but we had a tuck shop. Our mother allowed us to spend the change from the bus fare. The day the fare went up by a ha'penny was the day we had to forego sweets.

Pmsl these young ones won't know what your on about half penny lol I remember you could travel so so far on just 2p

We used to get a sixpence as ad hoc pocket money but we never got to spend it as Dad would make us put it in the jar and then when he needed money he would take it out again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ours in Junior school was a wallpaper table in the hall stocked with Dundee Biscuits and Custard Creams,yum

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

we had a tuckshop at our school for one day! someone broke into the office n made of with it tho!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had a tuck shop. They did glasses of strawberry milk for 10p.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

We had a tuck shop with those plastic cup fruit drinks for 5p, viscount biscuits were 5p, beef puffs were 10p and fish n chip crisps were 5p too

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

we had tuck shop was run by the 6th formers at upper school at middle school was run by reception at breaktimes

you could buy penny sweats right up to crisps and mars bars, marathons, kitkats anything you really wanted to have

drinks was still or bottles of pop or cans in summer the still drinks was frozen so nice to have that in summer

they did often try to stop the kids leaving school for there tuck shop when they stopped it or got greedy with there prices as everyone that wanted snacks just got over wall they could never stop it they even tried the teacher at the shops to stop it so everyone went elsewhere instead

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

The first boarding school I went to had one that was run by one of the teachers. Most of the boys had tuck boxes which they had taken at the start of term, packed with anything they wanted to scoff on. As well as crisps, nuts, sweets & more choclate, the tuck shop also sold bottles of cola, cream soda, limeade etc which we had to stab several times with our compass to get a drink from

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"we had a tuckshop at our school for one day! someone broke into the office n made of with it tho!

Someone stole the tuck? All of it? That's pretty bad.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"We had a tuck shop with those plastic cup fruit drinks for 5p, viscount biscuits were 5p, beef puffs were 10p and fish n chip crisps were 5p too

What's a beef puff?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The first boarding school I went to had one that was run by one of the teachers. Most of the boys had tuck boxes which they had taken at the start of term, packed with anything they wanted to scoff on. As well as crisps, nuts, sweets & more choclate, the tuck shop also sold bottles of cola, cream soda, limeade etc which we had to stab several times with our compass to get a drink from

THAT'S what the compass was for!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

we had canadian apples too!! havent seen those anywhere! dont know why they were called canadian apples...

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"we had canadian apples too!! havent seen those anywhere! dont know why they were called canadian apples..."

Were they apples from Canada?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The primary school my niece goes to has a little snack bar that they can get stuff from at playtime, fruit, raisins, little cartons of milk or squash. No crisps or chocolate x"

Schools aren't allowed to sell 'shit' now. Everything has to be healthy.

At snack time it has to be healthy.

Some schools even check kids lunch boxes and state what drinks they can drink during the day. Some schools ban soft drinks and are 'only water' schools.

I have to be careful when I go to teach also, I can only have water in display. If I want pop, I have to drink in staff room where kids can't see.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

THAT'S what the compass was for!"

Oh yeah, and wooden rulers had a hole drilled in the middle with an elastic band affixed at each end with a couple of drawing pins. The inner bit of a biro then became the arrow for your newly made bow, and the outer casing was not wasted as that became a kind of blowpipe type weapon

We were lovely kids really

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By *heOwlMan
over a year ago

Altrincham

Sounds slightly familar, except that one of the senior lads ran the one in our house - and made a tidy profit with it.

Nearly forgotten about the tuck boxes. In a school that prided itself on honesty, the tuck box was the only thing that could be locked - not that it really mattered as one soon found out that the wee clasps could be popped open without worrying about the padlock

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had a tuck shop at Middle School. Snow Balls were the thing (for the youngsters that was an enormous marshmallow covered in chocolate with coconut flakes) can taste it in my head now. Yum.

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By *t3_jalapenoMan
over a year ago

darlo

Used to have a tuck shop when i went to school too....could do with a 10p chomp now lol

Highheels liking the profile pic;)

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Used to have a tuck shop when i went to school too....could do with a 10p chomp now lol

Highheels liking the profile pic;)"

I think that might be more than a 10p Chomp.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"we had canadian apples too!! havent seen those anywhere! dont know why they were called canadian apples...

Were they apples from Canada?

no,they were huge stripey round lollies..took hours to get through one...i imagine theyre probably near-illegal nowadays...

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over a year ago

"Yes we did and it was ran by the older pupils.

They sold crisps and chocolate. I can remember the salt and shake crisps from school

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perhaps not from School but I remember the smiths crisps Salt and shake which was in a little Blue bag it used to get very salty in There sometimes also remember the Highland toffee bars and pink bazooka joes bubble gum more late 60,s Early 70,s.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"we had canadian apples too!! havent seen those anywhere! dont know why they were called canadian apples...

Were they apples from Canada?

no,they were huge stripey round lollies..took hours to get through one...i imagine theyre probably near-illegal nowadays...

Why on earth were they called Canadian Apples?

You can still buy something like that but I can't think what it's called.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Did you have one at school?

What tuck did it stock?

Who ran it?

What did you buy?

Yes I had a tick shop at school.

Some kids from the higher classes ran it.

It had.. Crisps space raiders, highland toffee, pennie sweets etc and bought that

Arrr loved the tuck shop

Highland toffee? Never heard of that.

Sometimes there would be a a free Highland Toffee with The Beano. "
or one of those balloons that When you blew up and let it go it made a right sound haha from the end the dandy had free things to I think most Of the comic,s did.

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over a year ago

"we had canadian apples too!! havent seen those anywhere! dont know why they were called canadian apples...

Were they apples from Canada?

no,they were huge stripey round lollies..took hours to get through one...i imagine theyre probably near-illegal nowadays...

Why on earth were they called Canadian Apples?

You can still buy something like that but I can't think what it's called.

no idea why they were called that..ive seen similar things over the years, but never exactly the same..i might have to google them!

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

"Did you have one at school?

What tuck did it stock?

Who ran it?

What did you buy?

We had a tuck shop at junior school but i can't remember who ran it? It used to sell various different sweets, crisps and chocolate bars, and lucky dip bags, not very healthy by todays standards in schools, lol.

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By *rcticFoxxxWoman
over a year ago

Hereabouts

At my first secondary school they had a tuck shop. We got stamps in our diaries for good behaviour, good grades, signatures from parents every week. I filled my pages pretty quickly because I was a goody two shoes. We traded the stamps for tuck. 3 stamps for a bar of chocolate or sweets. 5 for a can of , etc. So not 'cheap', but a good incentive to save up. They also sold pens and cool little notebooks. By the end of my first year I had shit loads of pens and notebooks xD

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